poll

poll
[pəʊl]
noun

(常作 the polls)the process of voting in an election
投票
the country went to the polls on March 10.
该国于3月10日举行投票。
■a record of the number of votes cast in an election
票数
the ruling party won 24 seats, narrowly topping the poll.
执政党赢得了24席，勉强获得最高票数。
■(the polls)the places where votes are cast in an election
投票站
the polls have only just closed.
投票站刚刚才关闭。
■short for opinion poll
opinion poll 的简称
(dialect)a person's head
(方)人头
■the part of the head on which hair grows; the scalp
头顶；头皮
a hornless animal, especially one of a breed of hornless cattle
无角动物（尤指无角牛）。参见red poll

verb
[with obj.]

(常作 be polled)record the opinion or vote of
做民意调查；记票
over half of those polled do not believe the prime minister usually tells the truth.
半数以上接受民意调查的人认为首相经常不说真话。
■[no obj., with adverbial](of a candidate in an election) receive a specified number of votes
（候选人）获得票数
the Green candidate polled 3.6 per cent.
绿党候选人获得了3.6%的票数。
■(Telecommunications & Computing)check the status of (a measuring device, part of a computer, or a node in a network), especially as part of a repeated cycle
(电信，计算机)轮询，探询
cut the horns off (an animal, especially a young cow)
截掉（动物，尤指小牛）的角
■(archaic)cut off the top of (a tree or plant), typically to encourage further growth; pollard
(古)（尤指为了促进生长而）截去（树或植物）的梢；修枝

派生
pollee
[pəʊˈliː]
noun

语源

Middle English (in the sense 'head'): perhaps of Low German origin. The original sense was 'head', and hence 'an individual person among a number', from which developed the sense 'number of people ascertained by counting of heads' and then 'counting of heads or of votes' (17th cent.)

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